TY - BOOK AU - Vos,Pieter TI - The law of God: exploring God and civilization T2 - Studies in Reformed Theology SN - 9789004281844 AV - BL55 .L28 2014 U1 - 201/.7 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Religion and civilization KW - God KW - fast N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material --; Introduction; Pieter Vos and Onno Zijlstra --; The Law of God in a Secular State; Gé Speelman --; Multiculturalism, Religion and Public Justice; Jonathan Chaplin --; The Natural Law and Liberal Traditions; David VanDrunen --; The Empire and the Desert; Alfons Brüning --; Whose Civilization is Europe Today?; Ábrahám Kovács --; The Aniconic God in Isaiah 43:10 and the Contemporary Discourse on Monotheism; Emanuel Gerrit Singgih --; Is Christ Among Us?; Jaeseung Cha --; A Violent God?; Renée van Riessen --; The Irreducibility of Religious Faith; Pieter Vos --; Civic Integration; Mechteld Jansen --; Prophecy and Democracy?; Nico Koopman --; Mapping the Christian Character; Heleen Zorgdrager --; In Defense of Authenticity; Onno Zijlstra --; Religious Transformations within Modernity; Wilhelm Gräb --; List of Contributors; Pieter Vos and Onno Zijlstra --; Index; Pieter Vos and Onno Zijlstra; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - In today’s society, a positive relation between ‘God’ and ‘civilization’ is by no means self-evident. Religious believers who want to live their lives in accordance with ‘the law of God’ are often considered a threat to civilization. To many, monotheistic religion is inherently repressive and violent. The central aim of this volume is to think of both God and civilization in a more open, space-giving way. God is seen as the One who prevents man from making an absolute claim for a relative reality, including one's religion and culture. The multifaceted relations between God and civilization are explored from systematic-theological, missiological, philosophical and ethical perspectives UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004281844 ER -